In reply to krikoman:
> I'm not naive enough to think this is going to happen, just sick of seeing dying children on our news and jung ho attitudes to killing people.
A neat summary of why your style of passive-aggressive virtue signalling never convinces anyone, except possibly to reject what you are proposing (whatever that may be, it is far from clear what you want other than for more emoting).
You seem to suggest that people who take a rather more measured, realistic view of what is possible and proportionate just LOVE seeing pictures of dying children.
They don't, they just see a situation where every intervention, of every kind, is fraught with all kinds of risks and stand every chance of making the situation much worse rather than better. They are also concerned, as you do not seem to be, with protecting our own, advanced, liberal and tolerant societies against being destroyed, not least by waves of violent, entitled, aggressive, sexually rapacious young men from primitive and brutal Islamic tribal areas, see Cologne, Malmo or Paris for details.
The prime duty of the British government is to Britain and British citizens who are loyal to Britain, not to Syria, Lebanon, slum encampments in Calais or Dunkirk or anywhere else. The white man's burden has been firmly laid down, we do not in any case have the resources to take it up again if we wanted to, even were imperialism not an idea thoroughly beyond its sell-by date. Similarly the prime responsibility of the German government is to Germans, the prime responsibility of the Swedish government is to Swedes, it might be a good idea if those governments remembered that fact.
There has also been virtually no sign of "gung-ho attitudes to killing people" in public discourse, there were 2 long, polite, agonised and deeply thoughtful debates in the HOC, one of which rejected the idea of military intervention against the government's wishes, the other gave licence to limited, small-scale and as far as possible highly targeted military intervention (actually there has not been very much action at all since the last vote).
Naive emoting and crying over dead babies on beaches, when the backstory of those babies collapses completely is totally last year,also totally discredited. The emotional blackmail doesn't work anymore, despite the fact that the situation of genuine refugees from Syria (and there are a great many of those) is dreadful enough. Britain, and any other rational Western country, are not going to commit suicide in sympathy with Syrians, because we are more concerned about our own lifeboat.